Extreme busyness whether at school or college kirk or market is a symptom of deficient vitality and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

I was coming to see the heavier your heart got, the strongest you had to be to keep carrying it around.

There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there, that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage.

I seek advice from my wife, who has been with me for 20 years and knows me better than I even know my own self.

My mother is the source of my unease in the world and thus the only person who can make me feel at home in the world.

The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down.

If yoga didn't exist, I'd invent it.

So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.

The mind is continuously running around. It never sits, it can't sit. Sitting seems to be death to it, and in a way it is.

If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.

Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.